vallentine mitchell jan 2008 (3 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Organized into bite-size installments, this book is specifically designed to deepen the understanding and heighten the relevance of the weekly sidrah for the young adult and student generation. The book provides ethical and religious guidance for confronting the vicissitudes of life and handling of situations in which today's teenagers may find themselves. These novel, informative, and inspirational sidrah insights will also be studied and quoted by those who teach or address young people. The fruit of more than 40 years' experience in religious education at all levels and for all ages, Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Cohen has written an accessible book underpinned by his belief that the Torah speaks to all.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This collection of twenty essays analyzes the encounters of the Yishuv (the Hebrew community in pre-state Israel) and Israeli society with the Holocaust while it occurred, and with its survivors. Sixty years after the end of the Second World War, this is still a painful topic, very much at the center of the agendas of both Israel and the Jewish communities worldwide, focusing on a soul-searching issue: was the tragedy unfolding in Europe part and parcel of public life in the Yishuv, its priorities and anxieties, and did Israeli society embrace the survivors as they deserved Based on a wide scope of primary sources and on many years of research, the essays deal with a variety of poignant sub-issues, such as the attitudes of David Ben-Gurion, Martin Buber and other leaders, the understanding of the information about the 'Final Solution', relations and tensions between the Yishuv and the Jewish communities and youth movements in Nazi-occupied Europe, rescue plans and their failure, decis.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Organized into bite-size installments, this book is specifically designed to deepen the understanding and heighten the relevance of the weekly sidrah for the young adult and student generation. The book provides ethical and religious guidance for confronting the vicissitudes of life and handling of situations in which today's teenagers may find themselves. These novel, informative, and inspirational sidrah insights will also be studied and quoted by those who teach or address young people. The fruit of more than 40 years' experience in religious education at all levels and for all ages, Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Cohen has written an accessible book underpinned by his belief that the Torah speaks to all.